282 
Macleaya, #&. Br. in Denham et Clapp. Narrat. Append. 218 
(1826); Fedde, Monogr. Papaveraceae, 215 (1909) 
Stamina 25-30; capsula_ oblanceolata, 
seminibus 4-6 ad suturas sessilibus ... 
Stamina 8-12; capsula orbicularis, semine 
solitario basifixo erecto ... ae pits 
‘1. M. cordata. 
2. M. microcarpa. 
vl. Macleaya cordata, /??. Br. lec.; Franch. et Savat. Enum. 
Pl. Jap. i. 27 (1875); Fedde, Monogr. Papaveraceae, 216, Fig. 
27, A-G, inel.War. yedoensis, Fedde (1909). 
Bocconia cordata, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 841 (1797); Bot. Mag. t. 
1905 (1817); DC. Prodr. i. 121 (1824). 
Cutna. Western Hupeh: 2. 1. Wilson (Veitch Exped.) 1408. 
Patung District, 4. Henry 3162, 5213. Nanto and mountains to 
northward, A. Hen ry 1882. Shansi Province: Ta ho kuan, /’. V 
Meyer 1870. Chekiang: Hang-chow, H. J. Hickin. Hillsides 
Chekiang, July 1854, Fortune. 
Japan. Tokyo, Science Coll, Imp. University (Japan) Herb. 
Yokohama, Marimowicz; Oldham 216. Yokoska, Savatier 58. 
Aomori, Faurie 578. ‘* Central Mts.,”’ Maries. 
“2. Macleaya microcarpa, Fedde in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. 
Beivl. 82, 45 (1905); Monogr. Papaveraceae, 217, fig. 27, J-O 
(1909). 
“Bocconia microcarpa, Maxim. in Act. Hort. Petrop. xi. 45 
(1889). 
Curva. Eastern Kansu: Potanin (1885). Hort. Kew. 1895, 
Northern Shensi: Giraldi 760, 4468-4472 (ex Fedde). 
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XLV.—BAMBOOS AND BORING BEETLES. 
L. A. Boopte & W. Datuimore. 
The fact that Bamboos used in India fo 
the normal condition are very liable to injury by boring beetles, 
whereas those that have ; 
: : 1 t hg experiments being made 
with a view to determining the reason, 
House, the exami- 
1 Laboratory. 
Bamboo stem (Dendrocalamus 
, one fresh and one after being 
Examination of two portions of 
giganteus), from the Palm House 
sunk in the pond near the Palm House for three months. 
The untreated piece of stem contained abundant starch, and a 
iy fee er amount of soluble carbohydrate, consisting of or 
ine uding glucose or some other sugar, giving a precipitate with 
ehling’s solution. 
In the stem from the pond, soluble carbohydrate was present in 
